QUESTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES

 

FOR ALL POLITICAL OFFICES

(SCHOOL BOARD TO U.S. PRESIDENT)

 

  LOOK FOR "YES" ANSWERS. 

IT IS ANTICIPATED SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS

WILL BE SUITABLE FOR FUTURE USE.

 

[ABBREVIATED VERSIONS FOR OPTIONAL USE--E.G., FORUM QUESTIONS IF TIME IS SHORT]

 

 

1.  Would you actively support keeping drug possession a crime and therefore continuing to use the criminal justice system to hold drug users accountable?

 

[ABBREVIATED VERSION 1.  Do you support

keeping drug possession a crime?]

 

 

            2.  Would you actively support Random Non-Punitive Student Drug Testing (RSDT) in schools to help prevent drug use and to identify drug-using students early thereby empowering parents to get drug-using children counseling and/or treatment?

 

[ABBREVIATED VERSION:  2. Do you support Random Non-Punitive Student Drug Testing in schools to help prevent drug use and to identify drug-using students early

thereby empowering parents to intervene?]

 

 

            3.  Do you agree that the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), instead of voters and elected representatives, should be the sole authority that decides, based on objective scientific research, whether any proposed medicine (including smoking marijuana) is safe and effective for medical use before marketing to the public?

 

[ABBREVIATED VERSION:  3. Do you agree that the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA)---not voters and elected representatives---should be the sole authority that decides whether smoked marijuana is allowed for medical use?]

Questions were developed jointly by the

Center for Effective Drug Abuse Research & Statistics (C.E.D.A.R.S.) and Drug-Free Kids:  America's Challenge.